Brooklyn-based writer and editor Sam Hockley-Smith has made his name with his incisive pieces on new music for magazines as Pitchfork, FADER, Dazed&Confused, GQ, and the Academy’s Daily Note newspaper in New York. As an omnivorous devourer of all kinds of out-there sounds and experimental excursions, Hockley-Smith is among the best placed people to present everything from avant-garde sounds to leftfield rhythms and the noise that really matters.